Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-08-03
LOCAL AND 0rmx. s"rr.
scraps FROM sfae Notebook Of siae
SensimeI's Reporter.

i: A natural gas company has been or
ganized at Las Vegas, N. NJ.
The harvesters at the Hay Ranch oil
returned to town yesterday.
Anthracite coal was found near Cho'
cheese Lake, W. T., last week.
Frank Rockwell returned from Taylor
by the White Pine stage last evening.
The decrease Of water In the Carson
river has caused large drafts OF men In the
mines.
Be an economist In prosperity; there is
no fear Of your not being one In adver-
sity.
A farmer named Hall kicked the wife OF
Henry Kiegel to death at San Fernando,
CAL, July 81.
One town in Sierra county, CAL, is
named Whisky Diggings and another
Brandy City.
At Woodland, CAL, July 2S. Clement
Edwards committed suicide by swallow.
ing strychnine.
DR.. j. j. Leek arrived home yesterday,
and can be found at his Office in the SEN.
TINEL building.
The Railway News says that the Chey-
enue and Northern will reach Douglas
before snow flies.
Los Angeles detectives are in San Dr.
ego looking for Tom Gormerly, who as.
saulted q little girl.
The prediction is made that cattle will
be shipped from Reno direct 10 Los An
geles within year.
Rutherford's team pulled up Main
street yesterday with a big load of hay
from Huntington Valley.
At Steele's station near San Luis
Obispo, CAL, July %, a child of John
Ward died from drinking I've.
W. H. Parke, the well-known politician
died at Marysville on Saturday from the
effects OF a cancer Of the face.
Near Portland. Or, July 81. eight
freight cars we're wrecked by q COW get.
ting on the G. & o. railroad track.
A Pima county (Arizona) Supervisor
offers to pay Tucson newspapers $50 q
month to boom the town and county.
Joseph Baker was run over and killed
by q train OF cars at Ashford, CAL, July
20, on the line OF the A. & P. railroad.
VIM. Levy, of the dry goods firm OF
Morris K Levy. will yield his place in the
Eureka store to H. Levy, his brother.
A young man In Eureka wishes TO
know how long girls should be courted."
Why, the same as short girls, of course.
Charles Ruckles. 16 years old, was
badly hurt at Portland by the explosion of
a dynamite cartridge, with which be was
playing.
There was a snowstorm, followed by
frost. on the Umptsunin Mountains, in
Washington Territory, on Friday night Of
last week.
When the remains OF Mrs. Kelly of
Tres Pinos, Cal, were found near Sequel.
where she had been drowned, one limb
was missing.
The question OF extending the Sutro
Tunnel into Mount Davidson . further
distance Of 5000 or 5000 feet is being
agitated again.
Van Tassell has agreed to drop from q
balloon at q height OF q mile and q quarter
with q parachute, at the San Jose, Cal,
Fair next month.
T. j. Boyer, q wealthy young English
man, shot himself in the brain while fool
ing with a pistol at Santa Cruz and will
probably die.
Hon. 8. Lidde. Of White Pine. has pur.
chased q great bargain in the stock Of
goods formerly belonging to Messrs.
Redlich d Cohn.
The man who earns his bread by the
sweat OF some other mans brow has a
comparatively easy time in hot weather,
or any other weather.
]. G. Ragle, proprietor OF a large fruit
orchard near Sebastopol. has five pear
trees from which he expects to gather
four tons OF the fruit.
Eight carloads Of dressed granite from
Cambridge, Mass, passed through Reno
for California July %. One slab was four
feet wide and 33 feet long.
The board of United States Railroad
Commissioners are in San Francisco in
vestigsting the accounts and records Of
the Central Pacific Railroad Company.
Times Review: A narrow vein of ore
was cut in the De Frees yesterday, assay.
ing upward Of $500 per ton. The present
prospects are favorable for q bonanza in
that mine.
VIM. Levy, OF the firm OF Morris Il
Levy, returned yesterday from o trip to
Virginia City and Reno. He was accom-
panied by his brother. H. Levy and wife,
who have come here to reside.
The Eureka Con. Mining Company are
taking advantage Of the presence OF T. j.
Reed at Eureka. aud are having him re-
survey the surface boundaries of the COM
pany's claims. and set up new stakes at
the corners.
Johnny Hutson, the foreman at the
Mt. Hope mines, came in from there yes
terday. He reports that the bottom Of
the winze from the lowest level, 8 feet by
4 feet in size, is entirely in high grade,
heavy lead ore.
Felix Schmidt was the happiest man in
town yesterday. The cause OF his being
Jolly will be found under the head of
Born I" in this issue. We congratulate
Felix on his new arrival. and hope the
young heir, when he grows up. will be as
good q brewer ss his daddy Is.